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    OPERA

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    A building where musical dramas are performedplay

    Synonyms:

    opera; opera house

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting man-made objects

    Hypernyms ("opera" is a kind of...):

    house; theater; theatre (a building where theatrical performances or motion-picture shows can be presented)

    Derivation:

    operatic (of or relating to or characteristic of opera)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    A commercial browserplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Instance hypernyms:

    browser; web browser (a program used to view HTML documents)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    A drama set to music; consists of singing with orchestral accompaniment and an orchestral overture and interludesplay

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

    Hypernyms ("opera" is a kind of...):

    classical; classical music; serious music (traditional genre of music conforming to an established form and appealing to critical interest and developed musical taste)

    Meronyms (parts of "opera"):

    supertitle; surtitle (translation of the words of a foreign opera (or choral work) projected on a screen above the stage)

    act (a subdivision of a play or opera or ballet)

    aria (an elaborate song for solo voice)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "opera"):

    rock opera (an opera with rock music)

    bouffe; comic opera; opera bouffe; opera comique (opera with a happy ending and in which some of the text is spoken)

    grand opera (opera in which all the text is sung)

    musical drama (opera in which the musical and dramatic elements are equally important; the music is appropriate to the action)

    Derivation:

    operatic (of or relating to or characteristic of opera)

    Credits

     Context examples: 

    In music she thought him unreasonable, and in the matter of opera not only unreasonable but wilfully perverse.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    Whether he could come out by force at the opera, and succeed by violence?

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    But she would have consented if he had proposed to sing a whole opera, and warbled away, blissfully regardless of time and tune.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    The carriage stopped, as I had expected, at the hotel door; my flame (that is the very word for an opera inamorata) alighted: though muffed in a cloak—an unnecessary encumbrance, by-the-bye, on so warm a June evening—I knew her instantly by her little foot, seen peeping from the skirt of her dress, as she skipped from the carriage-step.

    (Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

    "That I am not trained in opera?" he dashed in.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    I am ready to go with Annie to operas, concerts, exhibitions, all kinds of places; and you shall never find that I am tired.

    (David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

    They shopped, walked, rode, and called all day, went to theaters and operas or frolicked at home in the evening, for Annie had many friends and knew how to entertain them.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    She had always been used to music, and she had enjoyed opera ever since she was a child, and all her world had enjoyed it, too.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)

    She is going in the spring when the opera comes, and it will be perfectly splendid, if Mother only lets me go, answered Meg, cheering up at the thought.

    (Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

    And so with the stage, with sculpture, with opera, with every art form.

    (Martin Eden, by Jack London)


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